Open letter to Lane County Commissioners

The Lane County Commissioners are trying to usurp our Right to Direct Democracy! Add your signature now, and let your voice be heard!

This letter is in response to your consideration of changes to the initiative process that would empower you to become the gatekeepers of the people’s right to direct democracy through the initiative process. Your proposed action would give you the power to deny the people of Lane County our constitutional right to propose laws to the voters and goes against the very reason the initiative process was adopted in the first place.

The people of this county can not afford to sacrifice our one remaining access to direct democracy!

Please stop any and all actions that would change the initiative process to empower yourselves to decide which initiatives can be voted on by the people of Lane County. Voting on citizen-written laws is our constitutionally-protected right free from government interference.

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"These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes -- nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the "good" and the "bad," to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil -- all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called "insecticides," but "biocides."-- Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring," p. 18